Recently, I have been enjoying journals my parents have started keeping recounting their lives together. My mother's are always quite entertaining. A public historian by education, she knows the value of recorded memory. So, even though these journals don't have the imprint of her handwriting, just the protection of a thumb drive, they still remind me of what's important about preservation. Perhaps, most moving is learning just how affected my parents were by the events of my life. Hence, my homage to